Tuesday, May 31, 2011

I finished reading:

"Death Sentence" written by Jerry Bledsoe. 418 Pages.

This is the first true crime book that I have read. I am not a fan of the genre, but, read this specifically because it is about murders and an execution that took place in North Carolina. Reading the book certainly has not changed my opinion that the death sentence is wrong, in fact, in many ways it has convinced me more. I still do not see how any one has the right to decide someones death, even despite horrific things they may have done. How does that make you any better?

Book number 23 of 2011. 6807 pages at an average of 296 pages per book.

-Richard

-Richard

Sunday, May 22, 2011

An interesting though stuck me during a sermon at Church this morning. The subject was "Why does God Allow Suffering?". That is a very difficult to answer and this is not the purpose of this post. Something that was mentioned in passing got me thinking.

The comment was made that suffering gets people angry. It should, although, I understand, at least to the best of my limited ability the reasons why I get very angry at suffering, unfairness, greed etc... As a Christian surely we should be angry at all these things and I get mad when I hear people say "life isn't fair". On the flip side Atheist who generally believe in evolution or some variation on theme should not be bothered by say starvation or lack of health care etc. Why? because they follow the doctrine of survival of fittest and natural selection for example.

Extrapolating this to the current Political situation in the US and I am speaking very generally here The Evangelical, Conservative wing tend to be right wing Republicans against any form of social help. On the other side the liberal wing and atheist are Democrats espousing social reform and assistance. Surely this is completely backwards? The evolutionists for social help and the Christians against it? I know one of the arguments is for small Government and Government shouldn't be involved. My question is why not? If I believe in My God and Saviour who I know wants us to show compassion why cannot be demonstrated in the political world. If we all banded together and showed this love through everything including our politics how much more good could we do?

-Richard

Saturday, May 21, 2011

I finished reading:

"Across the River and into the Trees" written by Ernest Hemingway. 308 pages.

21st book of 2011 (forgot to post it when I finished) it. 6389 pages at an average of 290 pages per book.

-Richard

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

I finished reading:

"Beowulf" translated by David Wright. 101 Pages

22nd book of 2011. 6081 pages at an average of 276 pages per book.

-Richard

Sunday, May 08, 2011

I finished reading:

"Crazy Weather" written by Charles L. McNichols. 195 Pages.

20th book of 2011. 5980 pages at an average of 299 pages per book.

-Richard